Re: stigma
schwaja3@wfu.edu
Thu, 11 Apr 96 15:39:45
I don't think it is necessarily that you are "crazy" if you don't realize that
you are stigmatized or even necessarily oblivious. If you don't think what you
are doing or who you are is "wrong" "different" or "deviant" then you may not
consider that there is a reason for you to be stigmatized. How exactly is one
to tell if he has a stigma (if it is not tribal or something physical?) Is it
more than talking behind someone's back or are people completely shunned? Are
there degrees of stigmatization where, for example, people stigmatize you but
still treat you as a "normal?" or is stigmatization unconditional?
Wow! All the messages are coming in now!! I am never going to be able
to catch up with them all. I am glad that the sound is off on this computer or
people would start gettting pissed that I am so popular!!! Would they stigmatize
me then? Would I realize it? Who knows?!?